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Meet the AgMotion Team

Rolf S. Peters, President & Chief Executive Officer

Rolf brings experience in commodity marketing, risk management, finance, budgeting, and management together to drive results at AgMotion.

Rolf started his career as a commodity trader for The Pillsbury Company at its Minneapolis headquarters in 1986. He left in 1988 to found R. S. Peters, Inc., a cash market commodity trading company whose operations became Viking Ag Commodities, Inc. in 1996. Its operations are now part of the AgMotion group of companies. In 1990, Rolf (and a partner) founded Twin City Milling Corp., a recycler serving the wholesale bakery industry. The partners subsequently sold Twin City Milling at a profit to Endres Processing, LLC.

Raised in Tucson, Arizona, Rolf is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where he earned a BA. He pursued legal studies at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN at night.

Tim Carlson, Chief Operating Officer

Tim has successfully developed domestic and international markets for a variety of products. His broad skill set includes risk management, logistics, and organic trade. His primary area of expertise has been cash commodity merchandising. He has built and sustained several profitable markets in the cash commodity arena. These products include mid-protein feed ingredients, specialty proteins, fats and oils.

Tim specializes in building teams to develop entrenched market positions in crowded markets. Tim joined Viking Ag Commodities Inc. in 1996. Under his leadership sales and market share have grown annually for Viking. Tim holds a BS in Ag Business Management from the University of Minnesota.

Bill Hren, Chief Financial Officer

Bill has over twenty years of finance and accounting experience. Most recently he was Vice President-Finance and Accounting for Northcott Hospitality International, LLC, a holding company owning several businesses including AmericInn International, Northcott Co. and Wheatstone Restaurant Group. Bill was responsible for financing all development and acquisitions activity. While Bill was at Northcott, sales increased from $12MM to over $175MM in internal revenues and franchise system sales from 200 locations around the country.

Previously Bill served four years on the audit staff of Deloitte and Touche. He is a certified public accountant. He holds a B.A. in Business-Accounting from the University of St. Thomas.

Wint Ritchie, Vice President of US Commodities, LLC.

Wint has over 30 years of trading and risk management experience. He began his career as a commodity trader with Pillsbury in 1970. Wint and a partner founded USC in 1983 and built it into a leading cash commodity-trading firm serving markets across North America.

Today, Wint is a nationally recognized leader in cash commodity marketing and risk management. Wint joined AgMotion in May 2001 after AgMotion’s acquisition of US Commodities. He serves on AgMotion’s Executive Committee in addition to running AgMotion’s Minneapolis, Minnesota office.


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